And, once again, it is done.

No more driver's ed.

I can now go get my learners permit.

I passed. I did it. I DID IT!!!!!!!!!


You don't know HOW happy I am. Really. Ahh, this is amazing. Thank you Lord, thank you so much. I want to say 'God Bless' but I don't think that really works with God. Hm, maybe he doesn't mind it....

Speaking of deep, philosophical [cough, cough] questions, remember how I said I thought I was going to LOVE Philosophy.  I'm not so sure about that anymore. Okay, I take that back. I love thinking through these things but I also hate not knowing the answer. Yes, I'm one of those people, who just have to know! It drives me nearly insane not to know the answer to things, like aether or not I'm going to pass driver's ed or not.

I realize, half the time, it's not that I'm afraid I won't do something it's just that I want to know and I want to know now. Get what I mean? I think that's one of my blemish [as my dad once said, "We all have our blemishes, from one to one hundred."]. I tend to be so noisy, impatient and such. Like, me being the bugger I am, I want to know when Christ is coming even though I know he has said, plain and clear, that no one will know. Not even nosy ol' me.

I'm sure God laughs every time I stick my nose in something because, most likely, it's going to be burnt, bit, ect.  You'd think I'd get it after a while but I--I don't. Smack, if you know me, if I start doing that. When I say I'm nosy, I mean it. Ask my friends and family. If you don't finish your sentence ether I try to finish it for you or I'll make you finish it. That's how insane I can get over it. It has literally made me twitch before. Yes, twitch. Don't ask. :P

Well, I got to get to bed. I have work in the morning [and no driver's ed.]!

Yours,
Lia

Drivers Ed...SURPRISE!

     Today I woke up, did school work, and became bored until we received the call that...I could start the driving part of Driver's Ed. Apparently someone failed to show up and guess who got to take their place? Me!

     Isn't that crazy enough?

     I'm nervous, let's establish that. Really, who wouldn't be? First time of driving with the Driver's Ed teacher, not sure how the day will go, wondering if you're going to kill everyone in the car... We begin in the parking lot with me driving. The girl I was with will only go by Courtney, for her sake, and she was in the back seat. She had been driving with Mr. S for a while already. He has me drive around the school parking lot a few times, I'm shaking and nervous, and not totally sure what I'm doing. I embarrasses myself about, I don't know, ten times before he has us switch.

     Now Courtney's driving, she takes us all the way into another part of the county. We switch at a gas station and then I'm driving again. Getting bored? Well, just wait. Suddenly my drivers ed teacher is on the phone...with the police. He's reporting someone tailgating us. I hadn't even noticed, which shows how much I was looking in the review mirror...

     I check my review mirror and, sure enough, there are two teenage boys laughing away in a pick-up truck behind us. I'm a nervous kid driving for the first time, in traffic, on an actual road, with people around me...how do you think I felt? I stay calm-ish, surprisingly enough and Mr. S continues to relay information to the lady/man on the other end of the phone. I look back into the review mirror a few times. They boys are laughing, recording something, I think, and just having a great time.

     Until the cop shows up.

     She pulls them over, we turn around, and then it's Courtney and I's turn to laugh. And, man, did we laugh. I was so relived to have those butt-holes off MY butt. [Ha. Ha.] It's gets better too. The boys are standing out there, in the cold, one with shorts on, and are looking a little--I don't know--embarrassed? I see one with Mr. S's phone and soon enough...one of their mother/grandmother/someone arrives, looking pretty upset. The cops talk to her, she talks to the boys and we begin to leave. Then, guess who pulls up.

      A state trooper. Just to make things better.

      Oh, and the cherry on top is--the one driving had just gotten his drivers license. You can't beat that...you really can't.

     I was so happy. Best Driver's Ed...yet.

    -Lia